Tell HN: If You Are in Russia

Post by danuker » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 9:17 AM UTC

thejackgoode wrote: post #266

freddealmeida wrote: post #222

This anti-Russian trope spreading is infuriating. If Apple and Google can stop their Pay services, of course everything else will be stopped. But that also means I don't want to be on those services either. It is too much power to give to Amazon, Microsoft and Google. I will actively move my own services to solutions that don't act like arms of the US government.

Every Russian passport holding person is responsible for this conflict. The sooner they understand this, the more country remaining they will have when this will end

Post by jd115 » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 9:18 AM UTC

thablackbull wrote: post #331

jd115 wrote: post #259

Here's my take on this, which you are not going to like one bit. It goes like this... The good people of Russia - and I'm not saying this with a tongue in cheek - the vast majority of the people of Russia truly are GOOD people, in the simplest, most sincere sense of the word... But they do need to go through some things. You just don't get to support a murderous communist regime for 100 years and then say "but we had…

> You just don't get to support a murderous communist regime for 100 years and then say "but we had nothing to do with it". If that argument holds (which I'm not saying it doesn't), then how much more responsible are we who have democracy and tell everyone else how great it is we have a say in how our government operates. Surely, we then hold even more of the blame on issues such as the WMD fiasco. Ironically, ask an…

Post by KptMarchewa » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

alephnan wrote: post #280

jd115 wrote: post #259

Here's my take on this, which you are not going to like one bit. It goes like this... The good people of Russia - and I'm not saying this with a tongue in cheek - the vast majority of the people of Russia truly are GOOD people, in the simplest, most sincere sense of the word... But they do need to go through some things. You just don't get to support a murderous communist regime for 100 years and then say "but we had…

> You just don't get to support a murderous communist regime for 100 years and then say "but we had nothing to do with it". I'm sorry, but you had everything to do with it. This is easy to say when you have the privilege of living in a rich/developed country with free access to information and where you can increasingly voice your opinion without risking imprisonment or worst. Most people, especially in developing co…

Post by daminimal » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

pishpash wrote: post #147

vemv wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll point out the obvious: Ukraine is simply too close to home for many of us Europeans - they're our neighbors, colleagues, friends, we vacation in Kiev, they're our football rivals. We broadly share culture, race, etc. Few of those can be said about Iraq which is far away enough to seem some sort of abstract topic. So, having war at home (vs. in a newspaper) is completely novel for us and therefore unacceptable.

So, racism?

Post by masklinn » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

dotancohen wrote: post #83

vasoolibhai wrote: post #13

How will this affect Jetbrains ?

Jetbrains is Czech. They have lots of Russian developers, but that is an internal matter to them. It won't affect you or my use of Jetbrains products, but it will likely affect how quickly new features and bug fixes are deployed.